CVE-2026-81880 PUBLISHED

radare2: Uncontrolled resource consumption in radare2 PEF loader

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 27.08.2026 Published: 22.09.2026 Updated: 22.09.2026

radare2 is a UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset. Prior to 6.2.0, radare2's Apple Preferred Executable Format loader was vulnerable because the PEF loader accepted relocSecCount values that were not bounded by the number of sections or complete relocation records in the input. The vulnerability is triggered by normal binary-format auto-detection of a small crafted Apple PEF file. The loader could perform up to 268,435,456 relocation-section iterations and repeated buffer operations after record offsets passed the end of the file. This can cause denial of service through excessive CPU consumption and prolonged processing. This issue is fixed in version 6.2.0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 5.5

Product Status

Vendor radareorg
Product radare2
Versions
  • Version < 6.2.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption CWE
  • CWE-834: Excessive Iteration CWE